TikToking Apple employee fired over medical leave, not videos
After a tumultuous August, TikToker and former Apple hardware engineer Paris Campbell has again shared a video. This time, she's claiming she was wrongfully terminated over medical leave related to COVID.
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Campbell first rose to prominence in August after she released a video explaining why you should never remove Activation Lock from a stolen iPhone.
Later that same month, she returned to TikTok stating that the company had contacted her, telling her to take the video down. If she didn't, Campbell was threatened with disciplinary action "up to and including termination."
Now, the Tiktoker has released a third video, informing viewers that Apple had fired her in mid-December -- but not over her videos.
As it turns out, Campbell had been placed on extended medical leave as part of Apple's dedication to employees impacted by COVID. Campbell had tested positive for COVID three times before her termination.
"The whole reason that they were trying to fire me in the first place wasn't because of a TikTok video," she says.
"For the last year, I have been on a medical leave that Apple put into place for people who had COVID, or had long COVID, or had complications from COVID, and then this past Friday, they finally fired me for that leave."
The company had allegedly sent numerous letters to her former address, which had burned down earlier in the year, requesting medical documentation to validate her extended medical leave.
She notes that the company knew she did not live at her former address and believes this was done intentionally to prevent her from providing documentation.
"I believe they may have done this as a way of giving me no options to attempt to keep my job, because they then conveniently e-mailed me my termination letter at the end, instead of sending it to my old address," Campbell told The Daily Dot.
Campbell is looking into the possibility of taking legal action against Apple under the pretense of wrongful termination.
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Campbell first rose to prominence in August after she released a video explaining why you should never remove Activation Lock from a stolen iPhone.
Later that same month, she returned to TikTok stating that the company had contacted her, telling her to take the video down. If she didn't, Campbell was threatened with disciplinary action "up to and including termination."
Now, the Tiktoker has released a third video, informing viewers that Apple had fired her in mid-December -- but not over her videos.
As it turns out, Campbell had been placed on extended medical leave as part of Apple's dedication to employees impacted by COVID. Campbell had tested positive for COVID three times before her termination.
"The whole reason that they were trying to fire me in the first place wasn't because of a TikTok video," she says.
"For the last year, I have been on a medical leave that Apple put into place for people who had COVID, or had long COVID, or had complications from COVID, and then this past Friday, they finally fired me for that leave."
@stopitparis well, now i can finally talk about it! #greenscreen #apple #fired #techtok #wrongfultermination original sound - paris campbell
The company had allegedly sent numerous letters to her former address, which had burned down earlier in the year, requesting medical documentation to validate her extended medical leave.
She notes that the company knew she did not live at her former address and believes this was done intentionally to prevent her from providing documentation.
"I believe they may have done this as a way of giving me no options to attempt to keep my job, because they then conveniently e-mailed me my termination letter at the end, instead of sending it to my old address," Campbell told The Daily Dot.
Campbell is looking into the possibility of taking legal action against Apple under the pretense of wrongful termination.
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note the website- pariscampbell.com…a striking resemblance.
(Well, you could fire her, but you'd lose in court and the pregnant woman would become very rich).
Next, while I admit that it could be her fault for having forgotten to setup mail forwarding, that's an unknown. What I do know is that mail thieves are everywhere in California and the police do NOTHING about it. That's true even if your house wasn't burned down. My parents caught such a thief on their front door camera, but again, nothing can be done. To me, that's absolutely insane.
But here's what else is insane. I don't care how large Apple is. If you as an employer mail important documents to your employee and you don't get a reply, that employer had better darned well sent somebody to talk to her in person while she's at work to reconfirm what's going on. She must have come into the office at least once during the time those documents had been sent.
Yeah, it's that simple. "Hi, Paris. I'm afraid you haven't responded to the documents we mailed you and..." Just a quick conversation like that would have cleared it all up. No, there is no red tape excuse for NOT doing that. The only reason is that Apple has gotten so large it things it doesn't have to do that. Sorry, but I buy Apple devices for their beauty, function and for the HUMAN TOUCH. That should extend to their own employees.
Seems like a failure to communicate properly lies at the heart of this. That remains true even if she may have done other naughty things in the company that set some people against her. They still should have verbally communicated something about the documents sent to her, and allowed her to obtain hardcopies by hand when she then says, "I never received them."
She seems to be highly active while claiming COVID-related medical leave. Including doing live stand up comedy. I’m sure Apple’s lawyers have already screen grabbed everything
Go ahead and sue!
2. For a young person taking a year off for medical leave due to “long-covid” while doing stand-up comedy is not defensible.
It’s an embarrassment to those on the front lines who had to continue to work after covid.
She did not go on leave for pregnancy or to deal with an ill child etc etc.
And Apple was not sending her important documents, Apple was sending her a reminder or notice requesting her, to provide Apple with the proper documentation that allowed her to be on medical leave (or to remain on medical leave). Only she can provide those documents. You're an engineer working for Apple (most likely making 6 figures) and you need to be reminded that you are required to summit (to your employer) the proper medical documentation in order to take advantage of your employers medical leave plan? And this after being on medical leave for most of the year? Most likely Apple had already taken the easy route and emailed her that request and still got no response. I bet she'll blame that on the email "junk filter", so she can claim that she never got those request either. Not receiving a reminder that you need to turn in the proper documentation to be on medical leave, is not an excuse for not having them already turned in, in nearly a year. Unless she don't have the proper medical documentation.
It's a burnt down home. The Post Office is not going to leave mail in what is most likely still a vacant burnt down home, so mail thieves can steal it. The mail will be returned to sender, unless there's a forwarding address. And more than likely, some of those numerous mail was sent Certified and required a signature before it can be left at the address.
>"For the last year, I have been on a medical leave that Apple put into place for people who had COVID, or had long COVID, or had complications from COVID, and then this past Friday, they finally fired me for that leave."<
She haven't been at work for close to a year. She is on an extended medical leave program that Apple set up for employees with Covid or still suffering from symptoms afterwards. So how was Apple suppose to add a HUMAN TOUCH, by contacting her while at work?